The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 8585 or 8585?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 8585?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|8585| = ?
The absolute value of 8585 is the distance between 8585 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 8585:
Since the distance between 8585 and 0 on a number line is 8585, we get the answer as follows:
|8585| = 8585
Note that the absolute value of 8585 can also be written as abs(8585) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 8586
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